CHAPTER 96: STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Section
General Provisions
   96.01   Safety requirements
Streets
   96.20   Definitions
   96.21   Damage and obstruction prohibited
   96.22   Permits and bonds
   96.23   Street openings
   96.24   Emergency openings
   96.25   Backfilling
   96.26   Utility poles
   96.27   Maintenance of installations in streets
   96.28   Curb cuts
   96.29   Removal of encroachment
   96.30   Temporary street closings
   96.31   Clearing ice and snow; permit required to deposit snow in street
   96.32   House moving; permit required
   96.33   Reserved
   96.34   Limited residential improvements to public right-of-way
Sidewalks
   96.45   Definitions
   96.46   Sidewalk obstructions
   96.47   Pedestrian passage
   96.48   Specifications and permits
   96.49   Line and grade stakes
   96.50   Sidewalk specifications
   96.51   Permit revocation
   96.52   Ordering construction
   96.53   Construction by city
   96.54   Sidewalk maintenance
   96.55   Sidewalk repair
   96.56   Sidewalks to be cleared of snow and ice; clearance districts
 
   96.99   Penalty
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 96.01 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS.
   (A)   Safeguards. All openings, excavations and obstructions shall be properly and substantially barricaded and railed off, and at night shall be provided with approved warning lights. Warning lights perpendicular to the flow of traffic shall not be more than three feet apart, and parallel to the flow of traffic not over 15 feet apart.
   (B)   Shoring excavations. All openings and excavations shall be properly and substantially sheeted and braced as a safeguard to workers and to prevent cave-ins or washouts which would tend to injure the thoroughfare or sub-surface structure of the street.
Penalty, see § 96.99
STREETS
§ 96.20 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   STREET. All of the land lying between property lines on either side of all streets, alleys and boulevards in the city, and includes lawn extensions and sidewalks and the area reserved therefor where the same are not yet constructed.
   SUPERINTENDENT. The City Manager or his or her designee.
§ 96.21 DAMAGE AND OBSTRUCTION PROHIBITED.
   (A)   No person shall make any excavation in or cause any damage to any street in the city except under the conditions and in the manner permitted in this chapter.
   (B)   No person shall place any article, thing or obstruction in any street, except under the conditions and in the manner permitted in this chapter, but this provision shall not be deemed to prohibit the temporary obstructions as may be incidental to the expeditious movement of articles and things to and from abutting premises, nor to the lawful parking of vehicles within the part of the street reserved for vehicular traffic, nor to obstructions permitted under §§ 96.45 et seq.
Penalty, see § 96.99
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